As Malaysia charts its course towards an ambitious net-zero emissions target by 2050, the nation's buildings have been thrust into the spotlight. Accounting for over half of the country's electricit...
A total of 382,000 fish have been used in completed, ongoing and pending tests required under the European REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) to ...
“The paradox is that a risk that makes us all equal reveals, at the same time, how unequal we are,” reads the book Pandemocracy: A Philosophy of the Coronavirus by Spanish philosoph...
From Brussels - On Thursday 13 November, the European Parliament green-lit Omnibus I, the legislative package pushed by the European Commission with the avowed purpose of “simplifying” t...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Gruppo CAP have signed a €100 million finance agreement to support the company’s 2025–2030 investment plan. The announcement was made by EIB D...
They allow water to be stored in its most precious reservoir, the subsoil, with lower environmental impacts and costs than surface aquifers. Yet, for decades, managed aquifer recharge (MAR) tec...
For much of modern history, water diplomacy has been a predominantly male domain. From engineers, hydrologists, and agronomists designing irrigation systems to the “hydro-bureaucrats” ma...
Dead lands do not forget. They record each bomb, each contaminant, each burned hectare like a new geological layer of violence. They are the most accurate archives of war, much more reliable than mi...
Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems — it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural pov...
To counter climate change, we must rethink the way we design and experience our cities: public health, the environment, urban planning and innovation must converge in a single “One Health&rdqu...
Climate negotiations are celebrating their 30th anniversary, with the start of the COP in Belém, Brazil, today, Monday 10 November. For the first time in years, I will be following a UNF...
It is Lula's crowning achievement, his political legacy for the Amazon: a mega forest fund, the first of its kind, superior to any previous initiative, including the REDD+ carbon credit mechanism. I...
When world leaders meet this November in Belém, deep in the heart of the Amazon, for the 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30), they will stand at a crossroads. Ten years after the Paris Agreeme...
Within the global debate on the climate crisis, water represents a central paradox. According to experts, it is the element through which approximately 70% of the impacts of climate change manifest ...
Relatively little attention was paid in the Western media to the BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia, in 2024. Within the course of that summit, the BRICS Partnership on Carbon Markets was launc...
Of all the circular economy supply chains, wooden packaging is one of the most naturally suited to sustainability: wood is a biogenic material (i.e. a biomass that fixes carbon), biodegradable,...
As of November 4, 2025, New York City voters elected Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist, as the city’s next mayor. Mamdani’s victory – along with Democratic ga...
"Virtual fencing allows animals to be managed without direct human labour," Collie co-founder Chris Bloomfield tells Renewable Matter. "By training not only cattle, but animals in general to re...
The wood-furniture supply chain is one of the pillars of the Italian industrial system, with a positive trade surplus of €7.9 billion. The sector employs almost 300,000 people and counts over 6...
When the luxury world comes up with ideas, designs spaces and shapes concepts, the aim is often to flaunt, fascinate and impress. The risk, however, is that when evaluating a luxury project, only ec...
